Today’s “Word of the Day” is “conjure up” and it is a phrasal verb meaning “to bring something (a thought, memory, feeling, idea, picture or etc.) in someone’s mind; to make something appear, often as if by magic; arouse, bring up, call down/forth, evoke, invoke; imagine, visualize, envision, envisage, picture”.
Example Sentence: The word ‘Vaikom’ has many associations — in Kerala, one thinks of the writer Vaikom Mohammed Basheer, the singer Vaikom Vijayalakshmi and Vaikathappan, the deity of the Vaikom temple. Many Indians will connect Vaikom with Mahatma Gandhi, while in Tamil Nadu, it conjures up the name and the image of Periyar.
This word is present in Vaikom, a satyagraha, and the fight for social justice and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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